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Image-to-tech-pack AI, approvals, factory sign-off in five languages, payments and a work console. The platform on this page.
aipostgresshopify
We develop and produce apparel, plush, objects, footwear and electronics, from first sketch to delivery, and we build the software that runs it. That system is now yours too: turn any image into a factory-ready tech pack, colour it, check it in 3D, share it with a factory and track it to delivery in one place.
first tech pack free · then $48 a pack or $100/month · no card to start
Cut-and-sew, not printed blanks. Patterns, sourcing, sampling, costing, production and quality control, run by one team for brands, artists and creators. Every category below has a real minimum and a real lead time.
cut-and-sew, not printed blanks. patterns, fabric sourcing, fit, wash, trims, labelling.
from 50 pcs · 8–14 wksyour character, made real. pattern engineering, material matching, safety testing.
from 300 pcs · 10–16 wkscollectibles, desk objects, fingerboards, packaging-led pieces.
tooling-dependentyes, actual shoes. last development, tooling, full size runs. a programme, not a print job.
6–12 monthsindustrial design through engineering, tooling and certification.
6–12 monthsthe tools behind the product. client portals, approval workflows, ai that turns images into documents, payments and partner networks, built and handed over.
scoped per build · from 4 wksapparel starts at fifty, plush at three hundred. footwear and electronics are a different scale entirely, and software is scoped to the job. every product carries its own minimum on its page.
tell us who you reach and what you want to make. we read every one.
3 day replywe work out what should actually exist. sometimes that means talking you out of your first idea.
45 mintech packs, materials, colourways, and the thing itself in your hands.
2 roundsour factories, our quality control, transparent landed cost. you see the invoice.
from 50 pcsyour shopify store, built and live. you own it.
handed overone real product, one real store. strategy session, one custom product in one category, full design and development, two sampling rounds, production management, a shopify store built and handed over, studio photography, and the launch assets to sell it.
10–14 weeksa drop, not a product. everything in signature, plus three to six pieces across at least two categories, line identity and packaging, campaign photography and a video asset, drop mechanics built into the store, email flows connected, and launch-week support.
16–20 weeksyour own line, with footwear and electronics unlocked. everything in capsule, plus a multi-season roadmap, development at tooling scale, inventory financing and ownership structuring, warehousing and fulfilment, wholesale and retail placement, and ongoing operations.
6–12 monthsThe tools we use on every project, open to you and your team. Write technical documents from any image, colour them part by part, check them in 3D, and take them through factory sign-off and quotes, with every version, file and payment in one room. It works on your phone.
A finished render, a flat sketch, a photo of a sample or a screenshot you saved. In minutes you have a draft tech pack to edit.
Every page a factory expects, editable by you or your team, saved as you go.
Samples come back wrong when the brief is vague. Here the factory works from a private link and acknowledges each callout before anything is cut.
Submit a pack and it moves through one sign-off chain: we review and publish v1, you approve it, the factory countersigns every callout. Then it becomes a project with a quote, sample deposit and invoices paid through Shopify checkout, and every product shows whether it is waiting on you, us or the factory.
Colourways drawn from the approved hero image, part by part, each with its Pantone C code matched from the colour itself.
Once the pack scores 90/100 against your photo it becomes a 3D model you can spin in the browser and hand to the factory.
Callouts pinned to the photo, each with a spec and a note. The factory acknowledges every one through a private link, in its own language, before anything is cut.
Your first tech pack from an image, start to finish. No card needed.
Each pack after that, drafted from your image, with Future Basics review, v1 publish and a factory export in Chinese or three European languages.
Unlimited packs, versions and factory links for your studio. Cancel anytime.
| getting a tech pack | cost | time | factory sign-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| freelance technical designer | $300–800 a pack | 1–3 weeks | email and PDFs |
| PLM software | $10,000+ a year | weeks to set up | yes, if the factory logs in |
| future basics | free, then $48 or $100/month | minutes for a draft | private link, every callout |
The hub on this page is ours: designed, built and run in-house. AI that reads an image and writes the document, approvals that hold, payments, and a factory network that works in five languages. We build the same kind of tooling for brands that have outgrown templates and spreadsheets.
Models wired into the real steps of a business, not a chat box bolted on. They read a photo, draft the document, check it against the image and hand it to a person to approve.
Versions that lock when signed, one clear owner at every step, and every change kept on the record.
Deposits, invoices, memberships and checkout, tied to the work they pay for.
Interfaces and documents in the language of the person reading them, on pages that load inside mainland China.
Queues that show what is waiting, and on whom, so nothing sits in an inbox.
Every release runs scripted end-to-end journeys, on a phone-sized browser too, before it goes live. Then we hand over the keys.
Image-to-tech-pack AI, approvals, factory sign-off in five languages, payments and a work console. The platform on this page.
Reads the POS, ecommerce and loyalty systems a store already runs, and puts one plain sentence in front of the person serving the customer, in the second it matters.
Spending rules for AI agents, a person to say yes to anything outside them, and signed proof of every approval.
Tap a phone on a jar, pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay, and the jar’s display updates the moment the payment clears.
Fans upload phone clips, trim and publish them. Communities, live match streams, brackets and moderation.
A Shopify store for consigned and vintage goods: buyers make offers, sellers send in inventory, and a live-show channel runs alongside.
yes. add an image and your email at hub.thefuturebasics.com/start and the assistant drafts your first tech pack at no cost, no card needed. after that it is $48 a pack, or $100 a month for unlimited packs on the studio membership.
an assistant draft from your image with callouts, measurements, materials, construction and colourways, then a review by future basics, a published version 1 and a factory version in chinese (simplified or traditional), spanish, portuguese or italian. you can edit it any time.
fifty pieces on most items, apparel included. plush is three hundred. toys depend on tooling. footwear and electronics are a different scale entirely, and we say so upfront rather than let you find out later.
packages start at $15,000 for development, design and the store build. production is separate and billed at transparent landed cost.
no. a forty-thousand-person email list that opens is worth more here than a million passive followers.
no. plenty of the best projects are someone's first product.
equally. roughly half this business is brands who want product worth paying for rather than swag worth throwing out.
ten to fourteen weeks for apparel, idea to live. ten to sixteen for plush. footwear and electronics run six to twelve months.
we will tell you before we build it if we think the product is wrong. and at fifty pieces, being wrong is survivable — that is rather the point of the minimum.
you do, outright. your shopify account, your domain, your customer data. we build it and hand over the keys.
yes. the hub on this page is ours, and we build the same kind of tooling for brands: client portals, approval workflows, ai that turns images and documents into structured work, payments and partner networks. tell us what is slowing the business down and we will scope it, usually from four weeks.
Turn your design, sketch or photo into a tech pack in minutes. Your first one is free.
start a tech packProduct, production, the store that sells it and the software behind it, with one team from first sketch to first order.
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